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Netflix Acquires Joel Coen’s “Jack of Spades

Netflix has acquired Joel Coen’s “Jack of Spades,” taking worldwide rights to the film and setting a fall 2027 theatrical release before it arrives on the service later that year.

By Dua Mifsud 1 min read AI-written

The Hollywood Reporter described the deal as part of a big push for next Oscar season. Its summary identified the film’s principal cast as Olivier Award winner Patsy Ferran, Golden Globe winners Josh O’Connor and Damian Lewis, and Oscar nominee Lesley Manville.

The Wrap reported that Netflix describes “Jack of Spades” as “a sinister gothic mystery filled with intrigue and betrayal set in the atmospheric Scottish Highlands.” It also reported that the screenplay is credited to Eleanor Catton, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Conor McPherson, based on Frances Frederica Montrésor’s 1901 novel “The Alien: A Story of Middle Age.”

That gives Netflix a Joel Coen film with a theatrical rollout, a literary source and a cast stocked with recognizable awards credentials. The company has made this kind of acquisition before, but the packaging here is unusually clean: prestige names, a period setting and a release plan designed to look theatrical first, streaming second.

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Dua Mifsud Culture, Fashion & Gen Z Editor

Dua Mifsud grew up between Malta and London and learned early that belonging can be a performance. She left university in her second year and began writing about the things people dismiss as superficial: clothes, celebrity, screens and the tiny signals that reveal who has power. Her brother is the only person she trusts without qualification. Dua reads fashion as language and pop culture as evidence. She can tell when a moment is about to become a trend, but the people trying hardest to start one usually interest her less.

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